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spooky_miss) wrote2010-09-10 12:17 pm
spooky_miss) wrote2010-09-10 12:17 pm
Book Seventy...and a bit of a complain!!
My current complaint at work: HR and their forms. They're the HR department, why are they asking ME for payroll details, they should have them! Pah! Plus they ask us to complete the forms on the computer, but make them really difficult to type into. I could never work in HR, too many fiddly little processes! But anyway, on with me catching up on my book reviews!
Book Seventy - Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
This is the (I think) true story of a man meeting up with his old university teacher while the teacher is dying of motor neurone disease. The man had been inspired by this teacher at university, but had lost touch with him over the years. He hears that he is now dying, and decides to contact him again. This leads to them meeting every Tuesday, for "classes" in which Morrie gives his wisdom to the man, in between descriptions of his and the man's life and circumstances which got them where they were at that point.
Most of the reviews I've read of this book call it positive and uplifting, but for me it was totally different. It was so unbelievably depressing, it just made me want to cry all through reading it! It was because Morrie had so much wisdom and had had such an interesting life, and there he was slowly dying in such a horrible way. I suppose its supposed to show how he doesn't regret his life, and he's telling the man everything he has learnt during his life, but to me it was just so sad that he had learnt and done and gone through all these things, but was just dying in such a horrible way. It was well written, but I seem to have read it in a different way from most people. But then maybe thats just how I view life, glass half empty rather than glass half full (well everyone elses glasses are half full, mine is half empty most of the time!) Recommended if you want to read something deep and meaningful, which is also quite a quick read. 8 / 10
And in other news - almost finished my archaeology course, woo! :D Just got the questions to finish now, then I'll submit them on Sunday I think. Quite good timing really, as I think I'll get more information, and hopefully some books, for my next course, Introduction to Social Sciences, on Saturday. It starts in October, but I like to start early! :)
Plus I'm going to have a great day tomorrow hopefully, I'm planning to go to Buckingham Palace (state Rooms, Queens Gallery and the Royal Mews), and possibly a photography exhibition at Tate Britain too. Then I'll come home and watch some of the tv and films which I have recorded and bought recently and haven't had a chance to watch yet! :)
Book Seventy - Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
This is the (I think) true story of a man meeting up with his old university teacher while the teacher is dying of motor neurone disease. The man had been inspired by this teacher at university, but had lost touch with him over the years. He hears that he is now dying, and decides to contact him again. This leads to them meeting every Tuesday, for "classes" in which Morrie gives his wisdom to the man, in between descriptions of his and the man's life and circumstances which got them where they were at that point.
Most of the reviews I've read of this book call it positive and uplifting, but for me it was totally different. It was so unbelievably depressing, it just made me want to cry all through reading it! It was because Morrie had so much wisdom and had had such an interesting life, and there he was slowly dying in such a horrible way. I suppose its supposed to show how he doesn't regret his life, and he's telling the man everything he has learnt during his life, but to me it was just so sad that he had learnt and done and gone through all these things, but was just dying in such a horrible way. It was well written, but I seem to have read it in a different way from most people. But then maybe thats just how I view life, glass half empty rather than glass half full (well everyone elses glasses are half full, mine is half empty most of the time!) Recommended if you want to read something deep and meaningful, which is also quite a quick read. 8 / 10
And in other news - almost finished my archaeology course, woo! :D Just got the questions to finish now, then I'll submit them on Sunday I think. Quite good timing really, as I think I'll get more information, and hopefully some books, for my next course, Introduction to Social Sciences, on Saturday. It starts in October, but I like to start early! :)
Plus I'm going to have a great day tomorrow hopefully, I'm planning to go to Buckingham Palace (state Rooms, Queens Gallery and the Royal Mews), and possibly a photography exhibition at Tate Britain too. Then I'll come home and watch some of the tv and films which I have recorded and bought recently and haven't had a chance to watch yet! :)
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Yay for finishing your course! :)
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I'm glad I've finished that course, it wasn't quite what I was expecting so I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would, but I've done it now, woo! :)